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President Trump hurled another insult at Joe Biden, declaring that his predecessor was never the “sharpest bulb,” the Daily Beast reports.
Trump seemingly confused the idioms “not the sharpest tool in the shed” and “not the brightest bulb”.

Our big-brained "stable genius"

Opinion | The Debate Over Transgender Rights Is a Liability for Democrats. Here’s How to Neutralize It. It’s time for real discussion, dissent and debate, without fear of being canceled.

Thoughtful and well-reasoned.

She’s a media whore.

Judge Luttig on Substack The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have it...

Appalling.

Kristi Noem Pitches Reality Show Featuring Migrants Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been working with writer and producer Rob Worsoff to pitch a reality TV show—titled The American—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges acr...

Kristi Noem Pitches Reality Show Featuring Migrants politicalwire.com/2025/05/15/k...

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ICE color chart.

How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt, writing in the New York Times: "We propose a simple metric: the cost of opposing the government. In democracies, citizens are not punished for peacefully...

How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? politicalwire.com/2025/05/09/h...

Israel Plans to Occupy and Flatten All of Gaza "Israel has set President Trump's visit to the Middle East next week as a deadline for a new hostage and ceasefire deal, with a massive ground operation to commence if no deal is reached," Axios

Israel Plans to Occupy and Flatten All of Gaza. Wonder how all of those "Genocide Joe" non-voters feel now.

William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.

Bucks Head Start Programs Slated To Close Over Funding Uncertainty The program currently serves approximately 362 children and their families across Bucks County and employs 85 staff members.

In my neck of the woods. Thanks, Trump and the GOP. Really pro-family (NOT!). Could the current authoritative regime be any crueler? I don't think so.

We live in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.

This says it all.

Chaos Is About to Take Its Toll Paul Krugman: “It has been amazing to watch the stock market gyrating in response to things that aren’t even policy changes — they’re hints and rumors of policy changes. Today’s Washington Post has an...

Chaos Is About to Take Its Toll. The stock market, like a person in an abusive relationship, is still in denial and looks for any hints of decency...

Bribery, Rebranded Donald Trump has attacked just about every institution in American life—from the courts to the press to the universities—but his knack for inventing new forms of corruption still manages to surprise. ...

Bribery, Rebranded: It’s not just unregulated influence-peddling. It’s bribery with a QR code.

Tim Scott Watches Silently as Trump Destroys His Entire Legacy Click on the map for the article

One wonders how it's possible to walk around without a spine. Sen. Tim Scott shows us how. "Home of the Brave"?? Don't make me laugh.

The Knives Are Out for Pete Hegseth It was probably inevitable that appointing a weekend Fox News news host with no real defense credentials — and a reported drinking problem — to lead the Pentagon would turn out badly. National Securit...

Elect a clown, expect a circus.

The Knives Are Out for Pete Hegseth politicalwire.com/2025/04/21/t...

America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal David Brooks: “These are not separate battles. This is a single effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order that might restrain Trump’s acquisition of power. And it will take a concerted resp...

Short excerpt from David Brooks article says it all:
America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal politicalwire.com/2025/04/18/a...

Tom Friedman Is Very Worried about America Click on the map for the article

Very interesting article on how Trump has totally misjudged China. And China can't believe its luck. www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...

There we go. Support this man.

Anyone else think we're headed for a #Trumpcession?

Elon Musk makes $8 million a day off government contracts paid for with your hard-earned money. And what is he doing for all that money?
Trying to kill your Social Security and Medicaid.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

Thanks to our tinpot dictator and his willing GOP minions.

U.S. Diplomats Go Door-to-Door in Greenland to Find Anyone Willing to Meet the Vances. No One Was Interested U.S. officials have reportedly been been going door-to-door in Greenland, trying to find anyone interested in a visit from Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady, Usha Vance. The response? No Thank...

What a shame...

I feel like we're in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", with Trump as the Billy Mumy character and the rest of us the cowering citizens...